Rails - How to Redirect from http://example.com to https://www.example.com

Question

I\'m looking to learn how to cleanup my app\'s URLs. My app is powered by Rails 3 on Heroku.

The desired URL is https://www.example.comite.com

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Answer 1

DNS records cannot define the protocol for a domain, therefore you can't redirect http:// to https:// through DNS. Doing it through the web server configuration is not portable, hard to do, error prone and just plain outdated. This is a job best handled by the Rails router.

# beginning of routes.rb 
match "*path" => redirect("https://www.mysite.com/%{path}"), :constraints => { :protocol => "http://" }
match "*path" => redirect("https://www.mysite.com/%{path}"), :constraints => { :subdomain => "" }